http://www.boston.com/sports/colleg...matter-here/y9IKsgfT4Pvjl0gifVTgbI/story.html
Unearned Arrogance.
The obvious answer that BC is irrelevant in Boston sports, is the same reason that UCONN has no traditional annual rivals in football. a 5 decade process that started with the Ivy League de-emphasizing scholarship football, and rejecting the corrupt division 1 college football post season, proceeding to the 1970's restructuring of the NCAA into multiple divisions all conceived based on football scholarships and stadium capacity, which then proceeded to the restructure of intercollegiate athletic conferences nationwide around football, and locally in the northeast around football, and started the slow decline of division 1 football independence, which led to the formation of the Big East basketball conference, of which BC was a founder, and also a member that excluded Penn State in the early 1980's, and the notion of a football conference in favor of dying aspects of independence as a division 1 football program, which was finally dead by 1990, when every independent save Notre Dame via NBC television, BYU via the Mormon Church, and the service academies gave up independent football at division 1, and the big east football conference was finally created in 1992, which was poorly managed, and bent over for Notre Dame rear entry, without football in the 1990's, and then started breaking up by 2001, of which Boston College was all a part of, and by 2010, was safely cashing checks from the ACC conference, and still avoiding the basics of drives intercollegiate sports, which is competition with rivals, and advocating to keep UCONN out of a conference, which would have preserved the rivalries that had been built over 2 decades among the original independand football programs that formed the big east basketball conference.
The fallacy, was thinking that the fan bases of Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Boston College could do anything to sustain meaningful intercollegiate athletic competition. They aren't, and won't, and Pitt and Cuse, are going to follow the same path that BC did, when it comes to relevance in their own sports markets.